Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"